
	Monday, July 8
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
8:50 am	Welcome
9:00 am	Directed Technical Change: Evidence from U.S. Rural Electrification Martin Fiszbein, Boston University and NBER Jeanne Lafortune, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Josefa Lavandero Masson, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Ethan G. Lewis, Dartmouth College and NBER José Tessada, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
9:50 am	Break
10:00 am	Institutional Drift, Property Rights, and Economic Development: Evidence from Historical Treaties Donn L. Feir, University of Victoria and NBER Rob Gillezeau, University of Toronto Maggie E.C. Jones, Emory University and NBER
10:50 am	Break
11:00 am	Rain Follows the Forest: Land Use Policy, Climate Change, and Adaptation Florian Grosset, CREST - ENSAE Paris Anna Papp, Columbia University Charles A. Taylor, Harvard University
11:50 am	Lunch
1:00 pm	4 Egg Timer Presentations
1:00 pm	Suez David S. Jacks, National University of Singapore Christopher M. Meissner, University of California, Davis and NBER Nikolaus Wolf, Humboldt University
1:10 pm	Coercive Assimilation Policy and Ethnic Identification Across Generations: Evidence from American Indian Boarding Schools (slides) Christian Maruthiah, Trinity College Dublin
1:20 pm	Geography and Opportunity: Evidence from the Orphan Trains (slides) Daniel Keniston, Louisiana State University and NBER Scott Abrahams, Louisiana State University
1:30 pm	Persistence in Season of Birth: A New Linkage-Free Measure of Black Intergenerational Mobility Mindy Marks, Northeastern University Abdul Raheem Shariq Mohammed, Northeastern University
1:50 pm	Break
2:00 pm	How Successful Public Health Interventions Fail: Regulating Prostitution in Nineteenth Century Britain Grant Goehring, Boston University Walker Hanlon, Northwestern University and NBER
2:50 pm	Break
3:00 pm	Emigration during Turbulent Times Kaicheng Luo, Harvard University David Y. Yang, Harvard University and NBER Benjamin A. Olken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
3:50 pm	Break
4:00 pm	Inequality and Racial Backlash: Evidence from the Reconstruction Era and the Freedmen’s Bureau Eric Chyn, University of Texas at Austin and NBER Kareem Haggag, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Bryan A. Stuart, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
4:50 pm	Adjourn
5:00 pm	Student Posters on view throughout the meeting Anthony Bald, Harvard University The Birth of an Occupation: Professional Nursing in the Era of Public Health Allison E. Green, Princeton University Peer Effects and Geographic Mobility: Evidence from U.S. Navy Servicemen during World War II Elijah Locke, Boston University Ethnic-Occupational Niches: Evidence from the Age of Mass Migration Pablo A. Valenzuela-Casasempere, University of British Columbia Displacement and Infrastructure Provision: Evidence from the Interstate Highway System Youwei Adam. Xing, Clemson University The Erie Canal and the Economic Transformation of Nineteenth-Century New York State Dongkyu C. Yang, University of Colorado Boulder Time to Accumulate: The Great Migration and the Rise of the American South
	Tuesday, July 9
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Beyond the War: Public Service and the Transmission of Gender Norms Abhay Aneja, University of California, Berkeley Silvia Farina, University of California, Berkeley Guo Xu, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
9:50 am	Break
10:00 am	Gender Gaps in Academia: Global Evidence over the Twentieth Century Alessandro Iaria, University of Bristol Carlo Schwarz, Bocconi University Fabian Waldinger, University of Munich
10:50 am	Break
11:00 am	Why Did Gender Wage Convergence in the United States Stall? Peter Q. Blair, Harvard University and NBER Benjamin Posmanick, Clemson University
11:50 am	Lunch
1:00 pm	The California Effect: The Challenges of Identifying the Impact of Social Policies during an Era of Social Change (slides) Lauren Hoehn-Velasco, Georgia State University Jacob G. Penglase, San Diego State University Michael F. Pesko, University of Missouri Hasan Shahid, Vanderbilt University
1:00 pm	4 Egg Timer Presentations
1:10 pm	Changes in the College Mobility Pipeline Since 1900 (slides) Zachary Bleemer, Princeton University and NBER Sarah Quincy, Vanderbilt University and NBER
1:20 pm	Markets Make Humans WEIRDer: Evidence from 1850-1920 United States Max Posch, University of Exeter Tzachi Raz, Harvard University
1:30 pm	Mass Production of Houses in Factories in the United States: The First and Only “Experiment” Was a Tremendous Success (slides) Elena Falcettoni, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System James A. Schmitz Jr., Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Mark L.J. Wright, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
1:50 pm	Break
2:00 pm	Military Keynesianism Revisited: The Impact of Cold War Spending on Labor Markets and Politics (slides) Ilyana Kuziemko, Princeton University and NBER Suresh Naidu, Columbia University and NBER Donato A. Onorato, Columbia University
2:50 pm	Break
3:00 pm	From Samurai to Skyscrapers: How Transaction Costs Shape Tokyo Junichi Yamasaki, Kobe University Kentaro Nakajima, Hitotsubashi University Kensuke Teshima, Doshisha University
3:50 pm	Adjourn
	Wednesday, July 10
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Finding John Smith: Using Extra Information for Historical Record Linkage Ran Abramitzky, Stanford University and NBER Leah Platt Boustan, Princeton University and NBER Harriet M. Brookes Gray, Princeton University Katherine Eriksson, University of California, Davis and NBER Santiago Pérez, University of California, Davis and NBER Myera Rashid, Northwestern University
9:50 am	Break
10:00 am	The Historical Incarceration Penalty in the U.S. Desmond Ang, Harvard University and NBER Ellora Derenoncourt, Princeton University and NBER Kyle Hancock, Princeton University Jing Wu, Princeton University
10:50 am	Break
11:00 am	Convicts and Comrades Hazal Sezer, Tilburg University
11:50 am	Lunch
1:00 pm	Trade Disruptions and America's Early Industrialization Joseph Davis, The Vanguard Group Douglas A. Irwin, Dartmouth College and NBER
1:00 pm	4 Egg Timer Presentations
1:10 pm	The Making of High-tech Clusters: Evidence from Early-mover Corporate Labs in the US Microchip Breakthrough (slides) Jingyuan Zeng, London School of Economics and Political Science
1:20 pm	How Suitable are FAO-GAEZ Crop Suitability Indices for Historical Analysis? Paul Rhode, University of Michigan and NBER
1:30 pm	The Origins and Evolution of Occupational Licensing in the United States (slides) Nicholas A. Carollo, Federal Reserve Board of Governors Jason Hicks, University of Minnesota Andrew Karch, University of Minnesota Morris M. Kleiner, University of Minnesota and NBER
1:50 pm	Break
2:00 pm	Closing Ranks: Organized Labor and Immigration Carlo Medici, Brown University
2:50 pm	Break
3:00 pm	Did Organized Labor Induce Labor? Unionization and the American Baby Boom Henry M. Downes, University of Notre Dame
3:50 pm	Adjourn
	Thursday, July 11
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	The Ms Allocation of Talent Moritz Lubczyk, Rockwool Foundation Berlin Petra Moser, New York University and NBER
9:50 am	Break
10:00 am	From Sticks to Bricks: Construction Technology and Medieval Urban Development Robert J. Johannes, LMU Munich
10:50 am	Break
11:00 am	American Life Histories (slides) David Lagakos, Boston University and NBER Stelios Michalopoulos, Brown University and NBER Hans-Joachim Voth, University of Zurich
11:50 am	Adjourn and Lunch

Participants

Scott Abrahams, Louisiana State University
Omer Ali, University of Pittsburgh
Marcella Alsan, Harvard University and NBER
Lee J. Alston, Indiana University and NBER
Desmond Ang, Harvard University and NBER
Jeremy Atack, Vanderbilt University and NBER
Anthony Bald, Harvard University
Brian Beach, Vanderbilt University and NBER
Asaf Bernstein, University of Colorado Boulder and NBER
Peter Q. Blair, Harvard University and NBER
Michael D. Bordo, Rutgers University and NBER
Leah Platt Boustan, Princeton University and NBER
Nicholas A. Carollo, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
William J. Collins, Vanderbilt University and NBER
Joseph Davis, The Vanguard Group
Melissa Dell, Harvard University and NBER
Ellora Derenoncourt, Princeton University and NBER
Dave Donaldson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Henry M. Downes, University of Notre Dame
Brandon M. Enriquez, NBER
Elena Falcettoni, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Silvia Farina, University of California, Berkeley
James J. Feigenbaum, Boston University and NBER
Andreas Ferrara, University of Pittsburgh and NBER
Daniel K. Fetter, Dartmouth College and NBER
Price V. Fishback, University of Arizona and NBER
Martin Fiszbein, Boston University and NBER
Rob Gillezeau, University of Toronto
Grant Goehring, Boston University
Claudia Goldin, Harvard University and NBER
Allison E. Green, Princeton University
Daniel P. Gross, Duke University and NBER
Florian Grosset-Touba, CREST - ENSAE Paris
Kareem Haggag, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Walker Hanlon, Northwestern University and NBER
Joshua K. Hausman, University of Michigan and NBER
Stephan Heblich, University of Toronto and NBER
Eric Hilt, Wellesley College and NBER
Lauren Hoehn-Velasco, Georgia State University
Richard Hornbeck, University of Chicago and NBER
Douglas A. Irwin, Dartmouth College and NBER
David S. Jacks, National University of Singapore
Matthew S. Jaremski, Utah State University and NBER
Taylor Jaworski, University of Colorado Boulder and NBER
Robert J. Johannes, LMU Munich
Réka Juhász, University of British Columbia and NBER
Shawn Kantor, Florida State University and NBER
Lawrence F. Katz, Harvard University and NBER
Wolfgang Keller, University of Colorado Boulder and NBER
Daniel Keniston, Louisiana State University and NBER
B. Zorina Khan, Bowdoin College and NBER
Carl Kitchens, Florida State University and NBER
Morris M. Kleiner, University of Minnesota and NBER
Ilyana Kuziemko, Princeton University and NBER
Jeanne Lafortune, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
David Lagakos, Boston University and NBER
Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Yale University and NBER
Ethan G. Lewis, Dartmouth College and NBER
Gary D. Libecap, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
Elijah Locke, Boston University

Moritz Lubczyk, Rockwool Foundation Berlin
Robert A. Margo, Boston University and NBER
Mindy Marks, Northeastern University
Christian Maruthiah, Trinity College Dublin
Carlo Medici, Brown University
Christopher M. Meissner, University of California, Davis and NBER
Abdul Raheem Shariq Mohammed, Northeastern University
Petra Moser, New York University and NBER
Aldo Musacchio, Brandeis University and NBER
Larry D. Neal, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER
Peter Nencka, Miami University and NBER
Gregory Niemesh, Miami University and NBER
Benjamin A. Olken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Donato A. Onorato, Columbia University
Anna Papp, Columbia University
Max Posch, University of Exeter
Benjamin Posmanick, Clemson University
Santiago Pérez, University of California, Davis and NBER
Sarah Quincy, Vanderbilt University and NBER
Diego Ramos-Toro, Dartmouth College
Myera Rashid, Northwestern University
Paul Rhode, University of Michigan and NBER
Christina D. Romer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Joshua L. Rosenbloom, Iowa State University and NBER
Peter L. Rousseau, Vanderbilt University
James A. Schmitz Jr., Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Carlo Schwarz, Bocconi University
Edson R. Severnini, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Hazal Sezer, Tilburg University
Bryan A. Stuart, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Richard Sylla, New York University and NBER
Marco Tabellini, Harvard University and NBER
Alan M. Taylor, Columbia University and NBER
Charles A. Taylor, Harvard University
Kensuke Teshima, Doshisha University
José Tessada, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Melissa A. Thomasson, Miami University and NBER
Pablo A. Valenzuela-Casasempere, University of British Columbia
Micah J. Villarreal, University of California, Santa Barbara
Hans-Joachim Voth, University of Zurich
Fabian Waldinger, University of Munich
John Joseph Wallis, University of Maryland and NBER
Randall Walsh, University of Pittsburgh and NBER
Tianyi Wang, University of Toronto and NBER
Zachary Ward, Baylor University and NBER
Marc D. Weidenmier, Chapman University and NBER
Thomas J. Weiss, University of Kansas and NBER
Eugene N. White, Rutgers University and NBER
Nikolaus Wolf, Humboldt University
Jing Wu, Princeton University
Youwei Xing, Clemson University
Chenzi Xu, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Guo Xu, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Junichi Yamasaki, Kobe University
David Y. Yang, Harvard University and NBER
Dongkyu C. Yang, University of Colorado Boulder
Jingyuan Zeng, London School of Economics and Political Science
Nicolas L. Ziebarth, Auburn University and NBER
Ariell Zimran, Vanderbilt University and NBER